Transcript Pumpkins!

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Pumpkins are members of the
“Cucurbita" family of plants.
This family
also
includes
squash,
gourds,
cucumbers,
and melons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin
Photo: http://www.kidsweb.at/kuerbis/pumpkin5.htm
They have hard
shells.
Pumpkins are Fruits!
A central cavity
within the fruit
holds the seeds
and coarse,
stringy pulp.
Pumpkins are usually
yellow-orange to
orange in color, and
sometimes white.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin
Pumpkins are usually
shaped like a flattened
globe, or can be oblong or
pear shaped.
The skin or shell is
somewhat smooth and
sometimes has vertical
lines down the side of the
fruit.
Pumpkin fruits can vary greatly in size from less than five
pounds to more than one hundred pounds!!
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/pumpkin1.htm
Six of the seven continents
can grow pumpkins!
They even grow in the state of
Alaska!
(On which continent is Alaska?)
Antarctica is the only
continent that they won't
grow in.
http://www.pumpkin-patch.com/facts.html
The name pumpkin
originated from the Greek
word for "large melon"
which is "pepon."
"Pepon" was changed by
the French into "pompon."
The English changed
"pompon" to "Pumpion."
American colonists changed
"pumpion" into "pumpkin."
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/history.html
Pumpkins grow
from seeds.
The seeds are
usually planted in
the spring after
danger of frost has
passed – late April
or May.
Chronology of the Life Cycle of A Giant Atlantic Pumpkin
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/howto/cycle.htm
The pumpkin plant is a vine.
It has large, dark green leaves, orange trumpet-shaped
flowers, and prickly hairs on the stems and leaves. Like
cucumbers, corn, and muskmelons, the pumpkin has
separate male and female flowers on the same plant.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/pumpkin1.htm
Pumpkin
plants
have large,
dark
green,
lobed
leaves.
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Pumpkin flowers are yellow
and they are edible!
They are 4 to 5 inches in
diameter.
The vine has separate male
and female flowers.
The fruit is beginning to form at the
base of this female flower.
This is a male pumpkin flower.
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Pumpkins are harvested in the fall!
It usually takes
90 to 120 days
for a seed to
grow into a
ripened pumpkin.
Photo: http://www.kidsweb.at/kuerbis/pumpkin3.htm
Chronology of the Life Cycle of A Pumpkin
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/howto/cycle.htm
There are lots of varieties of pumpkins!
Lumina
Cinderella
Queensland Blue
Sugar Pie
Tahitian Pink Banana
Turk's Turban
http://www.ebfarm.com/farmstand/farmstand_pumpkin-id.html
http://www.pumpkin-patch.com/varieties.html
The Atlantic Giant is
the largest variety of
pumpkin!
Christy Harp brought a
1,725 pound pumpkin to
the Ohio Valley Giant
Pumpkin Growers Giant
Pumpkin Weigh-Off on
Saturday, October 3,
2009.
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm
Pumpkin Nutrition Facts
(1 cup cooked, boiled, drained, without salt)
Calories 49
Protein 2 grams
Carbohydrate 12 grams
Dietary Fiber 3 grams
Calcium 37 mg
Iron 1.4 mg
Magnesium 22 mg
Potassium 564 mg
Zinc 1 mg
Selenium .50 mg
Vitamin C 12 mg
Niacin 1 mg
Folate 21 mcg
Vitamin A 2650 IU
Vitamin E 3 mg
Pumpkins are 90 % water!
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/nutrition.html
•In colonial times, Native Americans roasted long
strips of pumpkin in an open fire.
•Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins,
dried them and made mats.
•Native Americans called pumpkins
"isqoutm squash.”
•Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food
and medicine.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/facts.html
•In early colonial times,
pumpkins were used as an
ingredient for the crust of pies,
not the filling!
•Colonists sliced off pumpkin
tips; removed seeds and filled the
insides with milk, spices and
honey. This was baked in hot
ashes and is the origin of
pumpkin pie.
•Pumpkins were often used to
feed animals, too.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/facts.html
http://www.kidsweb.at/kuerbis/pumpkin6.htm
Carving out faces in big pumpkins to make
jack-o'-lanterns is now an American tradition,
but the jack-o'-lantern didn't originate here.
Halloween began in Ireland where the first
jack-o'-lanterns were made of potatoes,
rutabagas, turnips, or beets.
According to an old Irish legend, a man called
Stingy Jack had been mean and conniving while
he lived, and after his death was forced to
walk the Earth carrying a turnip lantern with
a burning coal inside. He became known as
"Jack of the Lantern" or "Jack-o'-lantern."
The Irish put jack-o'-lanterns in windows or
by doors on Halloween night to scare him and
other evil spirits away. It wasn't until Irish
immigrants came to America that pumpkins
were used.
So the next time you put a jack-o'-lantern in
your window, stop and think about mean ol'
Jack.
http://www.naturalsciences.org/funstuff/notebook/plants/pumpkin.html
•Pumpkin seeds can be roasted as a snack.
•Pumpkins are used to make soups, pies and
breads.
•The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over
five feet in diameter and weighed over 350
pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin,
36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs and took six
hours to bake.
•Pumpkins were once recommended for
removing freckles and curing snake bites.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/facts.html
100 Things to Do With A Pumpkin
http://www.youthonline.ca/halloween/
101pumpkin.shtml
Anatomy of a Pumpkin
Photo: http://www.kidsweb.at/kuerbis/pumpkin1.htm
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/facts/anatomy.htm
Enjoy pumpkins!
PowerPoint compiled B. Burkett